Margaret E. Harris v. Donald S. Boreham. Margaret E. Harris v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.2d 110 · 1956
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 24 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Porter v. United States (1974), City of New York v. Pullman Inc. (1981)
30 federal appellate · 24 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 48 U.S.C. § 1405 · 48 U.S.C. § 1405C · 48 U.S.C. § 1405Q · 48 U.S.C. § 1576
Relies on Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. · District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. · Charles Simms v. Hannah T Simms · Porto Rico v. Rosaly y Castillo · Binns v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress may create a territorial government for an unincorporated territory and may confer upon it an autonomy similar to that of the states.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clear that the [government of the Virgin Islands] in the unincorporated territory of the Virgin Islands [is] a body politic quite distinct from the Government of the United States and that it ha[s] attributes of sover eignty which ha[ve] been delegated to it by the Government of the United States but which [are] distinct from the powers of that government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as defined bv 28 U.S.C. § 2671 includes officers or employees of any federal agency, members of the military or naval forces of the UnitedStates, members of the National Guard while engaged in training or duty . . . and persons acting on behalf of a federal agency in an official capacity, temporarily or permanently in the service of the United”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.